Light AI Academy · Executive Programme
Teaching AI to Run Finance
An executive programme for finance professionals. The agents are ready. The primary job of the finance function is now getting the company's relevant context into the hands of the agent, so it can operate with full context: your policies, your exceptions, your judgment. Over six modules, you'll learn exactly how.
Format
Face-to-face on the hackathon tour, or live online
Next cohort
Announced per tour stop
Duration
6 modules over 6 weeks
Fees
$300
What does a finance function do when agents do the work? It teaches.
Every close you've run, every exception you've handled, every judgment call you've made is context an agent needs to operate, and today most of it lives in your team's heads.
This programme trains you to capture that context and hand it to agents systematically: from your first automated workflow to a full control environment where AI runs the processes and your team governs them. You'll work in live Light environments throughout, and finish having automated a real process from your own company.
Benefits and career impact
Benefits for you
- 01Learn the defining skill of the next decade of finance: teaching agents your company's context.
- 02Automate a real process from your own finance function during the programme.
- 03Build and ship working tools and integrations without an engineering background.
- 04Understand the controls and audit questions that come with AI-run processes.
- 05Earn the Light AI Academy digital certificate on completion.
Benefits for your organisation
- 01Tribal knowledge becomes captured context: policies and exceptions agents can act on.
- 02The close gets faster and the team stays lean as transaction volume grows.
- 03Controls get stronger, not weaker: every agent action is governed and logged.
- 04A finance team that improves its own automation instead of filing IT tickets.
Programme content
Six modules with one thread running through them: an agent is only as good as the context it's given. Each module combines taught sessions, worked examples in live Light environments, and exercises on your own processes.
- 01Workflows
- 02Finetuning Agents
- 03Orchestrating Your Agent Setup
- 04Feedback and Learning
- 05Vibecoding and System Integrations
- 06System Thinking and Control Environment
Module 1
Workflows
Where every automation journey starts: turning the processes in your head into workflows a system can run.
- 1Map your finance processes end to end and identify the steps agents can own.
- 2Configure approval chains, routing conditions, and matching rules.
- 3Decide where human judgment stays in the loop, and encode it as policy.
- 4Ship your first production workflow with a full audit trail.
Module 2
Finetuning Agents
A generic agent knows accounting; only context makes it know your company.
- 1Understand what agents know out of the box, and what only you can teach them.
- 2Turn policies, your chart of accounts, and exceptions into instructions and skills.
- 3Write playbooks agents follow reliably, and test them before they run.
- 4Practice the core discipline: getting your company's context into the agent's hands.
Module 3
Orchestrating Your Agent Setup
Real processes need multiple agents working together, and clear rules for when people step in.
- 1Design multi-agent processes: extraction, approval, reconciliation, follow-up.
- 2Define handoffs between agents and escalation paths to people.
- 3Place review points where they protect the ledger without slowing it down.
- 4Case study: a full purchase-to-pay flow run end to end by agents.
Module 4
Feedback and Learning
Context isn't handed over once. It has to keep flowing, and corrections have to stick.
- 1Build the feedback loop: review agent output, correct it, make the correction permanent.
- 2Measure agent quality over time with metrics your auditors will accept.
- 3Turn one-off fixes into standing context the agent carries forward.
- 4Know when to rewrite the playbook, and when to add a control instead.
Module 5
Vibecoding and System Integrations
If you can describe it, you can build it. This is the module where finance ships software.
- 1Build internal tools by describing them, using Lovable and AI-assisted coding.
- 2Connect your systems over Light's MCP and API. No engineering ticket required.
- 3Extend the Slack, Teams, and Google Sheets plugins for your team's workflow.
- 4Ship a working integration within the module, from idea to production.
Module 6
System Thinking and Control Environment
Automation without control is risk. The capstone: designing the environment agents operate in.
- 1Design roles, approval thresholds, and segregation of duties for AI-run processes.
- 2Keep the audit trail immutable while agents post at machine speed.
- 3Prepare for the questions auditors and regulators ask about agentic finance.
- 4Capstone: design the control environment for your own finance function.
Every close you've run, every exception you've handled, every judgment call you've made. That's the context your agent is waiting for.
How you learn
Two formats, one curriculum. Both taught on live Light environments, never slideware.
Face-to-face
The Global Finance Hackathon Tour
Light and Lovable are taking finance hackathons around the world. Join a tour stop for an intensive in-person day: teams of finance professionals automate a real process such as invoice handling, reconciliation, or expense chasing, with mentors from Light and Lovable, and demo working automations by the evening. Tour cohorts continue the remaining modules online. Follow the tour schedule for the next stop near you.
Live online
The same six modules taught in weekly live sessions, from your home or office. You work in your own Light environment on your own processes, with small cohorts, real-time feedback from instructors, and exercises reviewed between sessions, so what you build in the programme ships to production after it.
No coding background needed. If you can describe your process, you can teach an agent to run it.
Faculty and speakers
Taught by the people who build Light and put it into production at customers every week.
Chris Bell
Product & Accounting
Ex-engineer and ex-accountant. Chris builds Light's accounting product with both hats on, and teaches the modules where they meet.
Petr Perina
ACE Lead
Ex-management consultant. Petr leads the Agentic Customer Engineering team at Light, the people who put agents into production at customers.
Rasmus Christensen
Implementation Lead
Ex-controller and implementation consultant with heavy ERP experience. Rasmus has run the migrations Light was built to make unnecessary.
Certificate and who attends
Built for the people who own the numbers, not for engineers.
Digital certificate
Complete all six modules and the capstone to earn the Light AI Academy certificate: proof you can teach AI to run finance.
Who attends
CFOs, VPs of Finance, controllers, finance ops leads, and accountants who want agents doing the heavy lifting.
Alumni community
Graduates share playbooks, skills, and agent setups that worked, across companies and countries.
Teach the agent. Keep the judgment.
Cohorts are small and taught on live environments. Apply with the process you want to automate.
